L'Art de la Simplicité (How to Live More With Less) by Dominique Loreau
It always seems complicated to live simply. Thankfully, with Dominique Loreau’s L’Art de la Simplicité (How to Live More With Less), you will get a few steps closer to achieving that lifestyle. 200 000 French women have already found precious advice in this book, which will be published in the United-Kingdom on Thursday 21st April by Orion, translated by Louise Lalaurie.
We at the book office are craving simplicity, and have compiled our favourite advice from the book, to get you started:
Live every day by keeping all your senses awake.
Have rituals in your day to day life, and make the simplest of actions sacred.
Live in elegance and perfection.
Sculpt, file, purge, clean, nourish and decorate your body.
Brush your body for 5 minutes every day with boar hair bristles – Polish yourself like a pebble
Eat less, but better. To gain weight is to die a little.
If your body is light, your life will be too.
Eat every meal in the same wooden bowl.
Every morning when you wake up, dilute a teaspoon of honey with a tablespoon of vinegar into a glass of hot or icy water, to lose weight.
Cultivate the art of living alone.
Read as much as you can. (This one isn’t the hardest to put into practice for us!)
No doubt you are already on the path to a clean and balanced life, full of healthy habits… Read this book to stay on the straight and narrow!